Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: a circular label with metal rim attached to the object reads 'Coote Collection.'
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card:] 'A shell bead necklace / currency string? 4 strings of white beads with a few black interspersed. Good condition.'
Event Date 9/4/2009
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Although there is no precise information re: the acquisition of this object, it is likely to have come from a collection formed by Walter Coote in the Pacific in 1880 and donated to the Museum by Mrs Barkley and Mrs Hornsby in 1941.
Event Date 27/8/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Length of shell money formed of four strands, tied together at both ends, and tied together to form a loop. Predominantly formed of white tridacna shell beads with occasional sections decorated with red spondylus shell and black beads. On a cord of vegetable fibre.
Event Date 27/8/2015
Author: maa